What if No One's Watching?

5734 Manchaca
Austin, TX 78745
512-448-4849

Store Hours
Mon-Sat: 9:00am - 9:00pm
Sun: 11:00am - 7:00pm

I know it is the in thing for true thrifters to hate on the Goodwill, but I just can't. It's my Gold Standard thrift store. And I like across the board pricing (which you can see here, FYI). As Austin Goodwills go, I'd say the one on Manchaca and Stassney (same parking lot as Thrift Town) is fair to middling.

This store is far smaller than my favorite Goodwill (the one on Research), and was a lot more crowded and disorganized on the day I visited, but it's still a pretty OK store. This was just a quick trip, and I didn't browse the books, but the housewares selection was good, including a very nice new basket for dog toys I picked up for $2.99 (the puppy chewed up the last one).

The clothes, in typical Goodwill style, are organized by color rather than size in most cases, which makes me insane, so I didn't look at them for long, but there did seem to be some good stuff there. I also found a stuffed snake for my dogs (pretty much their favorite thing ever) for $1.99 and a new metal lunch box for my collection for $.99.